Re: CastToContentRef

Andreas Kraft (kraft@fokus.gmd.de)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:13:23 +0100 ((MEZ) Mitteleurop. Zeit)

David,

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, David White wrote:
> > I have a question concerning the DAVIC/UK ResidentProgram
> > "CastToContentRef":
>
> I think you mean CastToObjectRef ;->

Ahh, yes! :-)

> I suppose that if you were to pass an empty string into the program and
> then attempted to transition to the result it should be the same as
> doing:
> TransitionTo(("" 0)).

Right.

> This is legal MHEG and would succeed in a profile that has some
> understanding of "", however this would definately fail in the UK
> profile because the mapping to the object carousel would fail, the same
> as entering any other incorect group identifier.

This is what I meant: Is ( "" 0 ) a legal object reference or not?

The question is whether this might be an issue for the UK profile to
define (or at least for the authoring guidelines)?

Best regards,

Andreas

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